Fwd: [CreoleTalk] APiCS Online released

[PAUL B GARRETT]

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From: Susanne Michaelis <michaelis at eva.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Subject: [CreoleTalk] APiCS Online released
To: CreoleTalk <CreoleTalk at yahoogroups.com>


We are happy to announce the release of APiCS Online, the freely available
online version of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures:


http://apics-online.info/



 The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS), edited by
Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus
Huber, and published by Oxford University
Press<http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199677702.do#.UVC734URInE>,
shows the distribution of 130 structural features in 76 pidgin, creole and
other mixed languages. It was inspired by WALS (the World Atlas of Language
Structures, http://wals.info), and 48 of the features are the same in both
atlases, allowing comparison of contact languages with the world’s
languages. Datasets on the 76 languages were contributed by language
experts on the basis of a detailed questionnaire, and checked thoroughly
for consistency by the editors.



 APiCS Online also contains references for each datapoint, as well as a
large number of fully glossed examples, often from naturally occurring
texts. There is also additional information on phonological segments and
sociolinguistic features. (The APiCS book in addition contains text
chapters for each of the 130 features, written by the editors, as in WALS.
These text chapters are not available online, at least not yet.)

The APiCS Online application was developed by Robert Forkel as part of the
CLLD project (http://clld.org/), and published by the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

 Enjoy!


Susanne Maria Michaelis <michaels at eva.mpg.de> <michaels at eva.mpg.de>
Philippe Maurer <phil.maurer at bluewin.ch> <phil.maurer at bluewin.ch>
Martin Haspelmath <haspelmt at eva.mpg.de> <haspelmt at eva.mpg.de>, and
Magnus Huber <Magnus.Huber at anglistik.uni-giessen.de><Magnus.Huber at anglistik.uni-giessen.de>
Leipzig, Zurich and Giessen

-- 
Susanne Maria Michaelis
Department of Linguistics
Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig

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Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)http://apics-online.info